in the "washington post." had some jobs in 2009, 2010, which coincided with a substantial period of expansion of prism, in the immediate aftermath of the and acts. the fisa i want to start off, though, admiral, with something related, that touches on the advertising subject of the panel today. certainly the intelligence community has an enormous number am prepareds, and i to accept him having read some of the documents, you know, i am reconfirmed in this is that there are a lot of things that cannot be talked about. never the less, while we recently learned that we are collecting a lot more documents than the public was aware of, the u.s. government was unable to connect the dots sufficiently on the tsarnaev brothers, even though they had been brought to the attention in advance. what do you make of that, and what do you see as the implications and what we just heard from asked carter brought the recent departmentalization of intelligence information? >> there are really two assets of this. one is having the i